Yumeji

{{Infobox film | name = Yumeji | image = Yumeji poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = [[Seijun Suzuki]] | producer = [[Genjiro Arato]] | writer = Yōzō Tanaka | narrator = | starring = [[Kenji Sawada]]<br />[[Tomoko Mariya]]<br />[[Yoshio Harada]] | music = Kaname Kawachi<br />[[Shigeru Umebayashi]] | cinematography = Junichi Fujisawa | editing = Akira Suzuki | distributor = Cinema Placet<br />Genjiro Amato Pictures | released = {{Film date|1991|5|31}} | runtime = 128 minutes | country = Japan | language = Japanese | budget = | gross = }} {{nihongo|'''''Yumeji'''''|夢二||lead=yes}} is a 1991 [[Independent film|independent]] Japanese film directed by [[Seijun Suzuki]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A4%A2%E4%BA%8C-757777|title=夢二とは|access-date= 2021-01-07|language= ja|work=kotobank}}</ref> It is a semi-faithful account of the life of poet and painter [[Takehisa Yumeji]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sp.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=26757&key_search=%E5%A4%A2%E4%BA%8C|title=夢二|publisher=[[Kinema Junpo]]|access-date=27 December 2020}}</ref> It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō ''Roman Trilogy'', preceded by ''[[Zigeunerweisen (film)|Zigeunerweisen]]'' (1980) and ''[[Kagero-za]]'' (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the [[Taishō period]] (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by [[Genjiro Arato]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.littlemore.co.jp/seijun/yumeji|title=夢二|access-date= 2021-01-07|language= ja|work=リトルモア}}</ref>

The film was screened in the [[Un Certain Regard]] section at the [[1991 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/134/year/1991.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Yumeji |access-date=2009-08-12|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>

==Cast== * [[Kenji Sawada]] as [[Takehisa Yumeji]] * [[Tomoko Mariya]] as Tomoyo * [[Yoshio Harada]] as Sokichi Wakiya * [[Masumi Miyazaki]] as Hikono * [[Tamasaburo Bando]] as Gyoshu Inamura * [[Reona Hirota]] as O-Yo * [[Chikako Miyagi]] as Wet-nurse * [[Kazuhiko Hasegawa]] as Onimatsu * [[Michiyo Okusu]] as Landlady * [[Akaji Maro]] as Criminal [i.e. detective]

==Other== "Yumeji's Theme", written by [[Shigeru Umebayashi]], features prominently in [[Wong Kar-wai]]'s 2000 film ''[[In the Mood for Love]]''.

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0103316}} * ''[http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1991/do001090.htm Yumeji]'' {{in lang|ja}} at the [[Japanese Movie Database]]

[[Category:1991 films]] [[Category:1991 Japanese-language films]] [[Category:1991 drama films]] [[Category:Japanese ghost films]] [[Category:Japanese independent films]] [[Category:Films directed by Seijun Suzuki]] [[Category:Films scored by Shigeru Umebayashi]] [[Category:Films set in the Taishō era]] [[Category:1991 Japanese films]]